Researchers have settled a 60-year-old debate in neuroscience, proving that the visual cortex constructs complex images from ...

In the brain, visual information is processed step by step along a hierarchy of regions. The primary visual cortex (V1) is the first cortical stage that receives visual input from the eyes and is ...

Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of neuroscience and psychology studies. Most past studies focusing on the visual cortex ...

Daniel Kish lost both eyes to retinal cancer before he was two years old. By the time he was a teenager, he was mountain ...

A new study reveals the brain doesn’t rely on a single clock but builds our sense of time through multiple stages across ...

Every illusion has a backstage crew. New research shows the brain’s own “puppet strings”—special neurons that quietly tug our perception—help us see edges and shapes that don’t actually exist. When ...

The same brain cells activate when you see something and when you imagine it, helping explain why mental images can feel so ...

The 1950s were a relatively rudimentary era for experimental neurophysiology. Recording the electrical activity of neurons wasn’t uncommon, but the methods often demanded considerable patience and ...

A new review proposes that categorization is a predictive brain function that prepares action before perception. Drawing on ...